mullygrubber
/ˈmʌlɪɡrʌɡə
/noun Australian Cricket
A ball delivered so that it stays very low after pitching: the bowler was a rare practitioner of the old art of the mullygrubber...
- Not since the mullygrubber incident from 1981 has our collective shame been this palpable.
- The captain ordered the bowler to deliver a 'mullygrubber'.
- Steve was too distracted to bowl anything but a mullygrubber that rolled along the ground.
Origin
1970s: perhaps from dialect mully 'dusty, powdery' + grubber in the sense 'ball bowled along the ground'.
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